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Þul Tungls 1III/2 — eyglóa ‘ever-glow’

Alskír, geisli         ok eyglóa,
máni, Miðgarðr,         mulinn, tungl ok glámr,
skýðir, œki,         skarmr, ártali,
ný, skjalgr, lúna,         nið, fengari.

Alskír, geisli ok eyglóa, máni, Miðgarðr, mulinn, tungl ok glámr, skýðir, œki, skarmr, ártali, ný, skjalgr, lúna, nið, fengari.

All-bright one, beam and ever-glow, moon, Miðgarðr, crescent, moon and twilight, hastener, moving one, one dragging forward, year-counter, waxing moon, squinter, lúna, waning moon, fengari.

readings

[2] eyglóa: ‘ey᷎gl[…]’ B, ‘eýgloe744ˣ

notes

[2] eyglóa (f.) ‘ever-glow’: According to Alv, where this word has the form eygló, this is the name for ‘sun’ among the giants (Alv 16/4, NK 126): [kalla] eygló iǫtnar ‘the giants [call it] ever-glow’. As a sun-heiti, eyglóa is also listed in Skm (SnE 1998, I, 85) alongside alskír ‘all-bright one’ (see Note to l. 1 and Introduction), but it is not otherwise found in skaldic verse.

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